Do people even use CB radios anymore? Did you ever have a “handle”? (That was your radio name if you didn’t know that…) My little brother’s handle was “Heavy Kevy in the Silver Chevy.” Those were the days my friends; CB chatter had a lot of specialized lingo that parallels text language today. You had to be “in” and be a “user” to know what was going on. If somebody wanted to talk to you they would call out your handle and ask if you had your ears on. It is actually a good phrase, especially as we think about the admonition of Jesus in Matthew 11. Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let Him hear!” He said something similar in the Sermon on the Mount and then again to the churches in Asia (Revelation 2,3). Having your ears on and having ears to hear are similar ideas. They both mean are you listening, really listening. And, when Jesus talked about hearing He meant actually doing something with what we hear. Hearing the truth without doing something with it is actually worse than never hearing it all. Hearing great truth and even knowing great truth does nothing to change our lives. It is when we do something with the truth that life begins. The scary thing about the passage we will study on Sunday is the revelation that there are consequences for refusing to hear. The ears of our heart are important and when we close them we shut out the life that God wants to give us. Jesus did more miracles and teaching in three cities of Galilee than anywhere else yet those three cities did not respond to God’s gracious invitation to change their way of thinking. The more light we have the more responsible we become...”wake up ears!” The more we obey the more light we receive. These are spiritual realities that require that we have our ears on!